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There are 37 currently active IPs in total, made up of 21 dry stock properties, 14 dairy farms and two lifestyle properties.

MPI said it had lifted 245 legal notices for M. bovis (both Notices of Direction and Restricted Place Notices). These farms had either undergone surveillance and tested negative, or went through depopulation and cleaning, and completed their 60-day stand-down period.

The ministry will hold a public meeting on Thursday in Dargaville at the Northern Wairoa War Memorial Hall, 37 Hokianga Road, from 11am to 1pm.